When I first stumbled upon this film several years ago, I was ecstatic to work with a film so prismatic and almost melancholic. Something about this film transports you into a dreamscape; where at times, I wish I was seeing the world as if it was Lomochrome Purple.
Camera Equipment
Lomochrome Purple (35mm) • Shoe Mount Light Meter • Camera Strap
If you learn how Lomochrome Purples’ colours transpire into the real world, you’ll have a blast envisioning your environment and experimenting with different camera settings.
• Green shifts to purple (or blue)
• Yellow shifts to pink
• Orange shifts to pink-red
• Red shifts to red-brown
• Blue shifts to cyan
The exciting part about using Lomochrome Purple is the anticipation around the images. You can have a good idea on how you think your image may turn out, but those colours could be extremely saturated, or like the image below, look more desaturated.
I find underexposing this film by 1 – 2 stops darkens those shadows and really intensifies the colour palette of this film. I took all these photos on the Olympus OM-1 at box speed (400).
Some of the main takeaways I got by working with this film were that I prefered subjects that were well lit and casted deep shadows. Bright yellowish-greens brought out the richest purple. Blueish-greens caused more of a desaturated light purple. The sky reflecting on lakes or other subjects will really cause your subject to appear cyan; so if you want to focus on strictly purple colours, find locations that lack blue.
As I shoot more with this film, I will continue to add to this post. For more resources, check out Lomographys’ blog post.
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